October 16, 2012 Bravo…
“I just despise you, Andy…and you, too, Sonja. Oh… and you, too, Ramona.”
Thank you Bravo for this wonderful opportunity. It has been a tremendous platform to reach out to the amputee community. This has expanded to anyone who has ever felt different for any reason — religion, sex, race, gender, sexuality, or any physical challenge. Embrace it! You all inspire me and teach me everyday. I hope we all continue to learn from each other how to persevere through life’s obstacles. I look forward to spreading the theme of unconditional acceptance.
Thank you Carole, Heather, LuAnn, Ramona, and Sonja: working with you ladies has been an honor. Each one of you is beautiful, strong, courageous, and accomplished. We have shared a unique experience together, one which only we can truly understand.
Most importantly — dear viewers. . .Thank you for your support, love, opinions, and for watching! This blog is for you. I have compiled many questions that you asked on Twitter and have answered as many as I was able. I would love to hear in your comments about YOUR lives, who you are, and why you enjoyed this guilty pleasure we share.
@RachDanger: @AvivaDrescher I like how you limit your kids’ exposure to the show. [Is] it hard to keep them from wanting to be on camera during filming?
Answer: My children are indifferent to the show and filming. They just want to do their kid stuff and have fun. I have tried to show them a scene or two that they are in and they watch for two seconds and then run off and play! They are bored by this show. (Sorry Bravo!!!)
@lschultz714: @AvivaDrescher Welllll, since you asked, your husbands cousin is one of my favorite actresses @frandrescher love to hear about that
Answer: Fran Drescher is a talented actress and icon. Her charitable work is extraordinary. She is brilliant, kind, and very generous. Reid and I feel lucky to have her as part of our family. She is loyal and always takes the high road.
@luvbuffalo: @AvivaDrescher I’m interested in knowing how being on #rhony has affected your day to day life and if u have any regrets
Answer: My life is most affected when filming because it takes up a great deal of time. People I meet love to talk to me about the show. I really enjoy meeting new people! Otherwise, my life has not changed much day to day.
@xxMLG: @AvivaDrescher In hindsight are you glad you joined the show? Would you do it again?
Answer: I am so happy I joined the show! It has been a wonderful experience and has enabled me to reach so many people. If I could turn back the clock, I would do it all over again!
@luvbuffalo: @AvivaDrescher what hair products do you use? Your hair is gorgeous!!
Answer: Thank you! Yarok hair products. They are organic.
@mama_martin710: @AvivaDrescher What ur expectations were when u signed up 2 do HW’s & how they compared/differed from “reality” of what ended up happening!
Answer: I expected to film half as much as I did. I never expected to argue with grown women because in reality, I never argue with my girlfriends. I was surprised by the heavy filming schedule and the conflict that I engaged in!
@sobogurl: @AvivaDrescher you never mention your mom. Is she still living? Did your parents divorce because of your dad’s “appetite” for young ladies?
Answer: My mom passed six years ago due to alcoholism. She was German, kind, and stunning. A wonderful devoted mother and wife. My dad and mom were together until the day she died. They were always madly in love, loyal, and devoted to each other.
@IamStefBrown: @AvivaDrescher sum up mostly what it was like your first season being on #RHONY you are an inspiration to a lot of people 
Answer: Thank you! It was like living in an alternate universe. Completely weird environment which was very new and foreign. I often felt like a deer caught in the headlights. At the same time, it was incredible. To get a front row seat and a backstage pass to a phenomenal part of pop culture was a blast. Of course, my goal, to help other amputees and physically challenged was everything.
There is MUCH more to PT Housewife’s twitter questions disguised as a BravoBlog… if you’re interested in reading… PTHousewife’sBravoBlog.
No I don’t think I want to read anymore. I practically fell asleep…twice.
Me 2. Who cares. Would like to know more about her relationship with the kind, devoted alcoholic mother.
Now that is a conveyor full of horse manure
Laughed so very hard reading your comment!
That’s a good line and very apt. As an aside: I find Aviva looks much older than her professed 41 years. She looks like she’s pushing 60 (her face). Her personal style is very dated: Her “story” of the accident changed every time she told it. Her defense of her creepy father is based on whatever lies he told her. Those two are a couple of grifters. They both need to be kept off screen because they perpetuate sleaze. Poor Reid and his children have to be around the loon and the dirty old fool.
new here so I gotta ask – what does PT stand for when you are talking about Aviva?
I think it might have something to do with this. Listen to the words.
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xphtei_south-park-paper-towels-and-a-knife_fun
I just assumed it was Post Traumatic, but I like yours better
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I like post traumatic, that’s funny!!! I couldn’t believe when Aviva was saying how she doesn’t like the drinking because her mom was an alcoholic. I was seriously, did everything affect you in life? She has a cause for everything but breathing.
I really thought that her excuse of misplaced anger towards her mother was bs. I think she had time to think it over and come up with yet another of her ridiculous excuses for just plain bad (and bsc) behavior. she is back peddling as fast as she can
Yeah, I’m pretty sure she tweeted yesterday that she doesn’t have misplaced anger. She also snarked at Ramona, so much for apologies….
oh wow…she did? she’s the queen of apologizing and immediately renegging.
Wait I think I’ve seen this blog before.
No kidding, right? Uh, PT this has been done and done MUCH better, I might add.
I like Aviva’s blog and think it was very smart. Answer viewers questions instead of trying to come up with an explanation for her strange behavior which there is no good explanation. I am gonna give her kudos for playing a good hand with this weeks blog. Ya know, I would have rather watched Aviva giving the little boy legs a thousand times than her craziness with Ramona and Sonja.
ahhh….that’s exactly what she was doing. By answering questions instead of writing a blog she was actually deflecting from her indefensable behavior.
Exactly right!
This woman’s face can sour milk. I just have a problem with her, her husband and sick father with the name calling and lies. Even last night Ramona said that pervy george said they donated “thousands and thousands of dollars” and Ramona stated they donated $500,.00 which is exactly what she donated to Aviva’s charity. Then Aviva chimed in with “he didn’t know.” Well, Adiva if he didn’t know then it was a bald face lie to say you donated thousands. And, Adiva still ranting that Ramona had no right to throw him out of her party (wasn’t a party Adiva it was a charity event for abused women and pervy comes in bullying and abusing.) Finally, pervy’s words to Carole were “I’m NOT leaving till I get an apology from Ramona”. In other words he was going to continue to harass and bully Ramona, Shame on you Carole for being so two-faced as to say Ramona should apologize for pervy’s bad behavior. Adiva and Carole have shown they are both beneath contempt,.
I agree, very disappointed none of the ladies except for Sonja backed up Ramona. Pervy George was way out of line as usual. He was such a disgusting addition to RHONY, meaning allowing him to film. Ugh, turned my stomach every time.
Yes, I too was disappointed, and I’m left wondering what happened to mature adult behavior? Heather might be the only one who showed a semblance of maturity this season
I didn’t care for Heather much in the beginning but grew to really like her. I think Sonja was right, Heather was nervous in the beginning and she became more relaxed/confident as the season went on. She was fun to watch, not too cray cray but stood her ground
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she’s the only housewife that I had the wrong take on. I usually read ppl well, but I was off with Heather. Hard working, honest, good mom and good person. I was sick and found myself wishing she’d bring me a warm compress and say comforting words. What a switch from cringing as she followed Ramona around with that grin. The ladies were right when they said she got more beautiful as the season went on….
I had Heather wrong too. Funny how Heather shows that the viewers can be forgiving and accepting when the cast behavior improves. I think the assumption is that one screw up and off to haterville with the viewers. I think as a whole, those of us who have no agenda for our opinions can change them. I was never a Teresa fan either, but my opinions of her have evolved because I felt she handled herself better than I would have. Good for Heather. I really felt sorry for her in the whole Toastergate thing. Ive mostly likes SonJa but I saw an entitled side of her this season. Entitled people irk me.
I believe that Jill had been pumping Heather with poison about Ramona before the show started and Heather started out with an intense dislike of Ramona and was going to “take her down.” She certainly was not nice when she would not invite Ramona to London or the really bullying at Adiva’s party when she followed her around and was abrasive. BUT then she started seeing the real Ramona and find out she wasn’t the monster Jill had tried to paint and was sorry for her actions and began to see Ramona for her own self. Also, LUann had attempted to turn all of the new girls off Ramona by her telling them that Ramona was trying to blackmail her. (we all know Luann can make up “white” lies at the drop of a hat.) At the end I think she and Ramona were in a good place and will get along. Lesson here is always make up your own mind about someone else.
Yep. Jill pumped Heather up to dislike Ramona. Remember PT said she heard Ramona was mean… Maybe Jill? Not a good idea to let others influence you regarging other people. You end up looking the fool.
You might be onto something w the Jillz thing. I could def see her poisoning the new girls minds. I feel the way heather does about ramona, that she’s amused by her. I wouldn’t go toe to toe w ramona bc I never learned how to girl fight the way they do, but I don’t mind her. If I was friends with her I could watch her in amusement and not be offended or affected by her behavior.
That’s not true LeAnn also backed Ramona up the only ones that supported the nonsense was Carle and Aviv
2nd all of this. Wish I could be on the couch – or have a tiny little mic in Ramona’s ear and I could feed her questions
“I look forward to spreading the theme of unconditional acceptance.”
Doesn’t this involve NOT calling people “trailer trash,” “alcoholics,” and the assorted other derogatory comments she made about Ramona and Sonja? Or do these definitions only qualify as “unconditional acceptance” in Adiva’s imaginary world?
Pretty sure she means “unconditional acceptance of ME and my FATHER”
LOL
I wonder if these “viewer questions” were the same questions that PT wanted MS SH to ask her in interview. PT is a control freak.
She copied Tre’s blog, and she’s nuts. Did anyone see on WWHL the other night that she sent a message to Andy that if Mego was a stripper, Aviva is sure she was very classy and elegant… whatever dip.
What I don’t like is they all want an apology for something. Than when they get one, they have to decide if it was sincere enough to accept even if a person says it multiple times. Just insincerely accept the insincere aplogy and drop it already! And I thought the season ended the way it would with the ones who were housewives not accepting the new housewives. The new ones tried to get in and couldn’t quite do it.
Thank you, thank you, thank you….that needed to be said
I second it!
3rd
If PT wants to put up with her father that’s fine. He IS her father, but the rest of us don’t need to and shouldn’t put up with his disgusting behavior. Why subject us and the other wives to that vile personality? I don’t get her thinking at all. I also don’t get Carole. She has some distorted opinion of herself, like she is above the other housewives.
Aviva basically made every mistake possible on RH show. But that being said, she’s really on guilty of being a ginormous a–hole to Sonja and Ramona. And those two are perfectly capable of standing up for themselves. Ramona in particular is guilty of similar behavior across all seasons of RHONY.
At the end of the day, Aviva is tolerable and potentially has some qualities that can help redeem her. But yes, she needs to work on herself and also decide once and for all whether her tragedy is going to define OR will she choose to how to define in her life.
Aviva is all over twitter trying to get Melissa Gorga to talk to her. And now she went and copied Teresa’s blog LMAO.
Aviva completely lied for her pervy dad when she said he did not stick Sonja with his old man pecker!
Timeflies, that is so true. There’s no way Sonja could have or would have made that up. I’m surprised she didn’t turn around and knock him out. She showed remarkable restraint. In the “real world,” he would have gotten himself arrested for pulling a stunt like that.
Here is my 2 cents about Aviva: I worked for a branch of CPS during my college days. I don’t have a degree in social work. I was trained as an intake counselor and resident aide for a battered women’s shelter and a shelter for runaway teens.I also worked as an advocate for a witness and victim protection agency sitting through countless court cases, evaluating jusges’ decisions and summarizing domestic violence court cases. I think Geogre is a sex addict and abused his family…to what extent I don’t know and I am not accusing him of anything. Aviva’s mom being alcoholic means she was not there emotionally for Aviva growing up and overlooked any indiscretions of George. Aviva is very protective of her parents which is normal. In my mind, George ruled the roost, what he said, goes. He bullied his way onto the show. Did she sound crazy when she wanted to set Sonja up with her self described sex addict Dad? Hell yes! I think growing up Aviva and her mom were told they weren’t giving and loving enough. Aviva demanding that Reed be showered with attention…that’s all old stuff from Aviva thinking she never gave enough to her father. Aviva’s first husband having a playboy reputation? Duh. Aviva’s farm accident to me is parental negligence. George told her to scream for 3 hours. I would have screamed,” Dad, Turn the damn machine off!” I think Aviva being totally organic is an attempt to cleanse herself from impure emotional damage. Her phobias are present in her life because she is a survivor and to live is to survive for her. I have never made a comment like this and if I have over generalized to those with more knowledge and life experience, I admit I have not walked a day in anyone’s shoes. I have seen so many abusers–men and women–through the court system that are fine upstanding citizens as well as those who were crackheads. I pray that Aviva gets nurtured in her own family and frankly, gets professional help. Buried feelings never die. I wish all of you who comment here and Ms SH nothing but health and happiness always. <3 PJ
pj: Just one little piece that got a bit skewed: PoopiePiggyGeorge told PT to “scream for 3 hours” after her FOOT (PT keeps telling everyone that her LEG was torn off) was disengaged from the machinery. IMO, agree with you that the farm accident was parental neglect. Where the hell was PoopiePiggy and Mrs.PoopiePiggy when their 6-year-old was playing in the barn? They knew the machine was running! They then try to get $10 million and settled for $1.2 million… THEN tried to screw the original atty out of his contingency fee! Disgusting people. TFC!! SH
Holy crap…Thank you for clearing that up for me!
Absolutely parental neglect, thus the overindulgence emotionally towards this atrocious Self righteous thing named PT. guilt induced parenting, to add is the fact that George and Ingrid were totally messed up to begin with.
Aviva is damaged and broken person and the tragedy is that she doesn’t know it. She inflicts her crazy world on everyone and flips out that know one understands. Her phobias are but a symptom. I don’t think Aviva is equipped to be on this show. I feel the same way about Taylor. (sorry to mention Taylor, SH, not hating here, just giving a short opinion)
I think your assessment is very likely. I too find parental negligence. At the age of six my children were always supervised. If we were inside they were only one room away…within my eartshot and just a step away visually. If they played outside I sat in my lawnchair with them. I’ve hesitated to say anything because it sounds harsh, but I do think you have made an accurate observation.
I know how you feel. I just had to throw my 2 cents in:)
I’m glad someone finally did. I also find your last statement compelling, where you say she is damaged and broken and ‘doesn’t know it’….I think that’s the key to how deep the problem is….the fact the doesnt even know. She thinks she is looking at others with a normal brain and truly there is serious imbalance. I agree she is not at all equipped to be on this show and she probably doesnt realize that either. I hope bravo doesnt continue to exploit her
Yes, that’s what compelled me to comment. If Bravo ever reads this, I hope they understand. I hope Bravo TV learns from RHOBH!
PJ, really good assessment of Aviva. Aviva tries to paint a picture of a quite different Georgie than everyone else sees. She has far too many issues to be on a reality show. Her time would be better spent in therapy. I don’t mean to sound snarky, she has three children and genuinely needs help.
Of she doesn’t get help, it will be more of the same next season IMO.
PJ: Very well said! I, too, got the same feelings about Gross George, The way Aviva defended him, made me uncomfortable. How many daughters know what kind of sex life their parents had (let alone yap about it every chance they get)? A parents intimate relations are usually considered private from the children. The fact that Aviva is so knowledgeable about her faux father’s sexcapades, makes me squirm. It’s disturbing.
Good point, and I think that shows why she has no boundaries with the other women— she can’t let things go.
I have a question for you, Aviva Drescher: Why are you a pot stirrer, self absorbed, idiot?
You spent the entire season trying to act like a victim simultaneously trying to be accepted. You were a walking paradox: I can do anything anyone can do. OH – I forgot – I have many fears and phobias because I forgot to turn off the conveyor belt my leg was being smashed to pieces in when I was 6. Your judgmental attitude toward the women you just met didn’t mesh with the daughter of the most vile, repulsive father in America who was declared the best Dad in the world. Get a grip. You got things the wrong way around. The women were basically fine. Your Papa is a person of poor moral fiber. (I think he molested you.) He certainly made several comments about your body and that he wanted to date you. Yeccchhhhh!